Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> I have a problem mounting tape right after booting fedora 7 with bacula 
> 2.2.8. I 
> would appreciate to get some comments before issueing a bug report.
> 
> After booting without a tape volume I insert a tape in the tape streamer and 
> issue a mount command. 

Has the tape settled by this time?  I ask because I know DLT drives will go 
back and forth over the tape for a while, looking, finding out the density 
of the tape, etc.  If the tape has not settled, wait for it to settle, then 
issue the mount.  Any difference?

 > After 8-10 minutes I get an error message that the tape
> could not be mounted. The bconsole shows the following:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] conf]# strace ./bconsole 2> mount.log
> Connecting to Director 192.168.1.104:9101
> 1000 OK: epo-dir Version: 2.2.8 (26 January 2008)
> Enter a period to cancel a command.
> *mount Tape
> Automatically selected Catalog: MyCatalog
> Using Catalog "MyCatalog"
> 3901 open device failed: ERR=dev.c:433 Unable to open device "Tape" 
> (/dev/nst0): 
> ERR=No such file or directory
> 
> *

Anything in /var/log/messages (or wherever they might be going)?

> I can send the strace if someone would like to see it. Unfortunately I don't 
> know myself how to decipher it :-(

Not me!

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